Re: Informix 4/5 upgrade to 7?

In article <3uj2hs$j8j@news.ios.com>, ekupr@soho.ios.com (edwin kuprienko) says: > > >Hi everybody! > >I work now for a company who is using ancient Informix 4 or 5 On-Line >release. I worked with this stuff about 5 years ago, and personally I >specialize in Oracle and Sybase. > >I would like to suggest to upgrade to something more recent in terms of >release. Do you know about any incompatibilities, porting problems (This >includes 4GL forms and C embeded SQL. > >Have you had personnal experience from such port you would like to share >with me? > >I will appreciate all input, as it will allow for much more precise >assesment of work involved. The company seems to be attached to the idea >of running software museum, and I don't want to spend my time arguing >about it, if it can cause a lot of new problems. > >As far as I know Informix 7.1 is quite well stabilized and having decent >functionality built in much more fun to work then 5 years old 4/5 release. > >Thanks in advance for advice. Actually, Informix Online 5.0 IS the current release of Informix Online. There are other products such as Informix-SE and Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.1 which are not different releases of the same product, but seperate products. There is nothing wrong with using Online 5.0 as long as they are using the latest release (5.01.UC3 I think, varies by platform). Informix is still selling, supporting, and enhancing this product.